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<p>The ability to do so is a function of dorm/apartment space. I think that UMA has been building. Some of the other campuses may have much more off-campus housing available.</p>
<p>Washington really wants OOS students that can pay OOS tuition. Alabama, judging from the plethora of mail I receive from them, wants OOS students that are performing well in school.</p>
<p>TCNJ is really big on getting OOS students.</p>
<p>Indiana University - Bloomington, IN</p>
<p>University of Florida doesn’t really accommodate OOS students. They admit very few OOS. Definitely few
scholarships unless NMF</p>
<p>Ohio wants your OOS student!</p>
<p>Ohio University offers “Gateway Scholarships” to OOS students. We pay the equivalent of Ohio in-state tuition , which is very reasonable.</p>
<p>It is perhaps unfair to look at this picture state-by-state rather than school-by-school.</p>
<p>In MN, the flagship campus in the Twin Cities is friendly to OOS students and, so far as I know, doesn’t pool them separately from residents. But they do get charge OOS rates.</p>
<p>However, the public LAC U of MN-Morris charges OOS students in-state rates:
[University</a> of Minnesota Morris | Admissions | Scholarships, Costs & Financial Aid | Costs](<a href=“http://admissions.morris.umn.edu/costsaid/costs/]University”>http://admissions.morris.umn.edu/costsaid/costs/)
MN-Morris is 13% OOS and would welcome more OOS students.</p>
<p>Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge has been generous in the past with scholarship money for strong OOS students. I was looking for a link that listed awards & qualifications but information is being revised - [Scholarship</a> Forms](<a href=“http://www.lsu.edu/financialaid/schlqualifications.htm]Scholarship”>http://www.lsu.edu/financialaid/schlqualifications.htm)</p>
<p>If you desire the State Flagship experience, LSU is worth checking out, IMO.</p>
<p>Wants:
Clemson & Auburn & U Del- gives merit $ to high performing-- all beautiful campuses</p>
<p>Note: Last year S turned down Penn S & Rutgers – both offered a second chance “Are you Sure??” Shocked- I think PS b/c of the full pay OOS tuition. Rutgers b/c he had decent SATs</p>
<p>Note-- (I’m orginally a NYer) remember if you go to a SUNY— stereo types prevail could be culture shock.
Same for FLA-- you’re an outsider
For UCONN- suitcase school-- I think less than 10% OOS-- you’ll be trying to make friends w/ HS Conn cliques or kids go home for the weekend. Nice school though.</p>
<p>When choosing an OOS school I think you want one where the %is 20 % or more of OOS.</p>
<p>I know a kid as an OOS at PennS-- she said it can be irrating to be a full paying student & have in-staters complain about expense…</p>
<p>Based upon our personal experience while visiting schools, I can say that Kansas, Missouri and Colorado are all very OOS friendly. My daughter is a senior now at Kansas State – with her merit aid package, her cost of attendance has been substantially lower than it would have been at UConn, which was our in-state flagship at the time that she was applying to colleges. The University of Kansas, K-State, the University of Missouri-Columbia and Colorado State all have some terrific programs and all are in great college towns. Good athletics, too.</p>
<p>As a mom of a rising senior in an IB program in Florida, I too was interested to see the list of so many Florida schools offering scholarships for IB. However, I’m wondering if they are on the list because of the FL Bright Futures scholarship program which pays a portion of tuition for students based on GPA and test scores. FL students awarded an IB diplomma can qualify for the 100% tuition level of Bright Futures even if their test scores don’t meet the minimum.</p>
<p>Don’t they all??? OOS students pay significantly more than IS students, so it makes economic sense to attract them, right? What am I missing?</p>
<p>Some states want OOS students to improve their student bodies and metrics and pay OOSs to attend their school. I think that “want” has more than one meaning here.</p>
<p>Some states have laws limiting OOS kids. The tax payers of the state have paid for the university system and they want first crack at it. So it makes sense that in state kids get some preference. Yes, the schools want the OOS dollars, but many times those kids that they do accept from out of state get merit money or other scholarships so they aren’t necessarily bringing in a lot of extra cash. For many schools, it is not just a monetary motive. They want the diversity, higher test scores, talent that happen to be OOS.</p>
<p>Which schools give really good merit $ to high-performing OOS students? I live in New Jersey, I definitely do not want to attend Rutgers, and while I thought TCNJ was OK when I visited, I wasn’t blown away by it. Plus, the current budget crunch in NJ makes me kind of want to get as far away as humanly possible from the public education system. However, my parents don’t want me to go to a public school out of state unless the cost is comparable to going to an in-state public school.</p>
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<p>Whatever advice you receive here, make sure you go to the school’s website and confirm. I made the mistake of telling someone on this board that U of Arkansas gives instate tuition to everyone who scores a 25 or above on the ACT…turns out that they only give that to those from Texas and a few other neighboring states.</p>
<p>With that said, I don’t think University of Oklahoma has geographic limits on their merit aid. If you have a 29 or above on the ACT, their merit money starts getting very generous. Lovely campus and great academics and traditions.</p>
<p>just personal experience: Son was accepted to University of Illinois OOS, school of music, but financial aid consisted of $20,000 in LOANS/year.</p>
<p>I want to back up sports<em>guy</em>5’s comments about the gap between IS and OOS at UNC not being as wide as stated earlier.</p>
<p>On the UNC website I found average SAT scores for the 2008 freshman class comparing the IS and OOS students. I realize this is just one criteria, but it is the only one I saw that divided the two groups.</p>
<p>3,201 IS students - CR, 639, Math, 654 = 1293
664 OOS students - CR,663, Math, 678 = 1341
IS writing was 633 and OOS was 664</p>
<p>It doesn’t seem like the OOS students are way more qualified than our IS students,especially when you consider they’re comparing 3,201 students to 664 students. I would also guess that these averages could have gone up in these last two years as more and more top IS students are picking UNC.</p>
<p>I’m just trying to keep the information out there correct.</p>
<p>I kind of have to disagree that University of Delaware wants OOS students. I attended as an OOS freshman last year and it was much more common to meet OOS than IS students.</p>
<p>It’s about 70% OOS due to both the small number of Delaware students and the large number of students in close proximity from other states (PA, NJ, VA). Delaware pretty much guarantees admission to any Delaware high school student provided they take 5 academic courses a year in high school, earning no lower than a B- in any of them. </p>
<p>Regarding merit aid at Delaware, they don’t treat in-state vs OOS students any different, at least for the full-tuition to full-ride program called the Distinguished Scholars Program. They invite the top 100 applicants, regardless of home state, to spend 2 days on campus “competing” for scholarships. Everyone receives a scholarship, the only caveat being that you had to attend the weekend in order to receive one. This clearly gives an advantage to IS students, but people came from as far away as Minnesota and Trinidad & Tobago. It seemed that about 30% or less were from Delaware, true to the 70% OOS statistic I mentioned above.</p>
<p>I don’t think they are all that desperate to get OOS students, an image born perhaps out of the huge percentage of OOS-ers. They had too many, thus putting Delaware residents (the students they are supposed to be serving) at a disadvantage, thus the “Commitment to Delawareans”.</p>
<p>“Don’t they all??? OOS students pay significantly more than IS students, so it makes economic sense to attract them, right? What am I missing?”</p>
<p>as cptofthehouse said, the missing piece is state legislators/state taxpayers who underwrite , by and large, the main operations of the school. they might have rules on oos/is pcts.</p>
<p>I did, however, hear the um annarbor is notsotied to the state’s strictures since it has its own rich endowment. i am curious about the oss pcts there.</p>
<p>For VA and MD, it is state mandated by the legislature. They can have no more than 25% OOS. Actually, due to the economic downturn, both of these states went from 30 to 25 in the past few yrs.</p>
<p>Hence, to me the question should probably posed as what are some of the state universities that are easier to get into as an OOS.</p>
<p>For example, if you come from NJ/NY and want UMD you better have some good grades, however, if you want Towson, (which is a state univ in MD) come on in!</p>
<p>Parents and students need to realize that sometimes your home state can also hurt your chances of acceptance to a certain state university. UMDCP has many NY/NJ applicants, but very few TX applicants, sometimes they will take an applicant with lower stats just to have diversity and created a larger national pool.</p>